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title: Then the merchant’s son asked, “_Bátyushka_,[40] when you go, get me… — Russian Folk-Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the merchant’s son asked, “_Bátyushka_,[40] when you go, get me my luck!” Who acts: son, you, Bátyushka. A sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 28, sentence 21

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Then the merchant’s son asked, “\_Bátyushka\_,\[40\] when you go, get me my luck!”

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**Who acts:** son, you, Bátyushka · **What happens:** ask, go, get · **To what, where:** luck, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, you, Bátyushka), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62509:28:21
# text = Then the merchant’s son asked, “_Bátyushka_,[40] when you go, get me my luck!”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Bátyushka	Bátyushka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	40	40	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the merchant's son |  |  |  | then |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | Bátyushka | my luck | the merchant's son *= son* |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary luck=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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